Community centre will rise again

Hey there, time traveller!This article was published 17/4/2012 (1696 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

A year after losing their community club to a devastating fire, Elmwood residents had the opportunity to discuss the future of East Elmwood Community Centre last week.

Dozens of residents attended a city organized meeting last week at Hampstead School to discuss the club’s future. The meeting was facilitated by a local architecture firm Scatliff+Miller+Murray.

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East Elmwood Community Centre will be busy with sports and programming again once it’s rebuilt. Purchase Photo Print

East Elmwood currently has $1.1 million from insurance money to go towards the rebuilding effort, while the city and province are working together to formulate a plan to fund the remaining amount of the project.

Lifelong Elmwood resident Amanda Young said she’s happy the process to replace the destroyed club has finally begun.

"I think it’s moving in the right direction. It’s what we were hoping for, we weren’t forgotten about," Young said.

"To have these meetings we know something is happening and it allows the community to have a voice."

Preliminary plans discussed at the meeting include a regulation size gym, skateboard park, and constructing the building at a new location that will be more visible to the community.

The centre would likely need to utilize other green spaces in the area to provide additional space and programming options.

The former EECC was located on Beach Avenue but was facing the rear of houses and was only accessible via back lane.

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